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A categorisation of problems and solutions to improve patient referrals from primary to specialty care

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, December 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source

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247 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A categorisation of problems and solutions to improve patient referrals from primary to specialty care
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, December 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12913-018-3745-y
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 247 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 13%
Researcher 20 8%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 5%
Other 12 5%
Other 28 11%
Unknown 124 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 34 14%
Computer Science 8 3%
Social Sciences 8 3%
Psychology 7 3%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 128 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 September 2023.
All research outputs
#3,377,803
of 25,240,298 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#1,521
of 8,567 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#72,604
of 448,163 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#61
of 199 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,240,298 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,567 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 448,163 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 199 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.